The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
THE East.

THE death of Hirsch Harris, known as
rabbi Harris" occurred at Brooklyn, N.
Y, on the 2Sth at the age of one hun
dred and nine years. His widow has just
passed her ninety ninth year. He was
with Napoleon in his march to Moscow
A PASSENGER train passing through
Ridgewood Station, near Reading, Pa,
on the 2Sth, ran into vehicle containing
four persons, all of whom were killed.
The great number of disastrous fires
that have occurred in the past six months
was causing great uneasiness among the
| leading insurance men of New York on the
2Sth. 1t was believed that the teaching of
Johann Most the Anarchist, and his fol-
| lowers had led to many of the con1agra-
| tions.
The Little Lehigh river overfiowed its
banks on the 2Sth, flooding large number
of iron-ore mines near Reading, Pa, and
throwing many men out of work.
| THREE children named Katy Halliha an,
Della WEIGH and Maggie Toomey were
drowned while bathing in the Concord
river at North Belle, Mass, on the 25th.
EIGHTY of Pinkerton's mer who had
been on duty in the Pennsylvania coke re-
| gions were withdrawn on the 28th.
| A VIOLENT thunder and rain-storm on
trict ruined crops and washed out high
ways, causing heavy losses.
| SHAW q Co., extensive lumber dealers
| at Towanda, Pa, failed on the Goth, with
preferences of $780, 600.
New York and New England were
swept by heavy thunder-storm on the
29th and the lightning caused much lam
age
THE Columbian bank of Philadelphia
failed on the Goth for $3.50, 000
IT was stated on the 31th ult. that Je-
| rome NJ. Hill, Wall street New York;
| speculator, was defaulter for $500, 000
He stole that amount in bonds from an es-
tate OF which he was one of the executors,
| and lost the money in speculation.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON, the famous
mechanical engineer and inventor, cele-
| DRAFTED his eighty-fourth birthday at his
home in Brooklyn, N. Y, on tho 31st ult.
THE strike Of the 'longshoremen in New
York was ended on the 30th ult.
Four men were killed in railroad col
lision on the 30th ult near Concord N. III.
EIGHT deaths from sun-stroke occurred
in Philadelphia on the 3lst ult. and seven
in New York
CoIoRED veterans Of the late war held
reunion in fremont Temple in Bost ton on
the 1st. There was a large attendance.
GEORGE WHELsTEIN shot his wife
fatally at Bridgeport, Conn, on the lst
in a tit of jealousy and then committed
suicide
WHILE walking the street in that city on
the 1st, Rev. William Hazen, D. D., of Bos-
ton, a prominent Baptist minister, fell
dead. Hew seventy-nine years old.
JAMES MARTIN, aged seventeen years,
fell from the Brooklyn bridge on the 1st, a
distance of one hundred and thirty feet,
but was rescued uninjured.
In the Mahoning (Pa.) valley nearly
seven thousand iron workers stopped
work on the 1st owing to the refusal of
the mill-owners to recognize rule of the
Amalgamated Association prohibiting any
man from holding two jobs at the same
time.
THE village of Parsons, Pa, was flooded
by the bursting of a dam on the mountain
on the 1st, and the people had to flee for
their lives. The loss was estimated at
Sl50,000
WILLIAM WILTSHIRE, of Camden, N. j.,
on the LIST shot dead his wife and William
s. Darr, justice of the peace, and then
killed himself Domestic trouble was the
cause,